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Projects previously presented at the market include Laszlo Nemes’s Oscar-winning Son Of Saul.

The 14th CineLink Co-Production Market (Aug 18-20), the backbone of Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section, will this year present 15 projects from South-East Europe, and three guest projects from Qatar and Mexico.

CineLink boasts an impressive track record. An average of 60% of the projects that have taken part at the market in the last 13 years went all the way from development to production.

The most recent success is Laszlo Nemes’ Son Of Saul which won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2015 and Oscar for Best Foreign Language Films.

Other titles developed at the market include two winners of Venice’s Lion of the Future: White Shadow by Noaz Deshe, and Mold by Ali Aydin; two Berlinale Silver Bear winners: Harmony Lessons by Emir Baigazin and If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle by Florin Serban; and Semih Kaplanoglu’s 2010 Golden Bear winner Honey.

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Nine projects unveiled on top of six previously announced projects.

Sarajevo Film Festival’s co-production market CineLink, which will run Aug 18-20, has unveiled its selection.

Nine projects have been added to the previously announced six, with additional guest projects to be announced in coming weeks.

The selection targets projects from established regional names, which are in advanced stage of development and financing.

CineLink offers awards funds totalling more than $180,000 (€160,000) in cash and services and boosts a impressive track record with previous projects going on to major international recognition such as Oscar and Cannes winner Son Of Saul (2015), Berlinale winner Harmony Lessons (2013) and Venice winner White Shadow (2013).

Cinelink Co-Production Market 2016

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija (Macedonia)

Director: Teona S MitevskaScriptwriters: Elma Tataragić, Teona S MitevskaProducer: Labina MitevskaProduction Company: Sisters And Brother Mitevski

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija is the fourth feature by Macedonian director Teona S. Mitevska. Her previous film The Woman Who Brushed Off Her...

Varuh meje (Guardian of the Frontier)

Written by Brock Norman Brock, Zoran Hocevar, & Maja Weiss

Directed by Maja Weiss

2002, France/Germany/Slovenia

A lazy trip down a river turns into a nightmare. It’s a plot that has been tread on many times in the horror genre, and even more in the adventure and thriller genres. Varuh meje takes an interesting approach to the old girl known as the river trip. It approaches the trip from a decidedly female and nationalist perspective. Suffice to say if the viewer has no interest in Slovenia or in the role of women in Slovenian culture, then they need not bother with Varuh meje.

Coming from a female director in Maja Weiss, Varuh meje comes at its topics from a very female perspective. The commentary is layered, and often it’s so steeped in the relationship between Slovenia and Croatia that losing your footing is very easy.

Holy Strokes!: Turk’s Debut Loses Its Appetite

Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told from thee separate points of view from an overlapping timeline. Turk, who has worked as assistant director to Danis Tanovic and Maja Weiss, shows an intriguing knack for establishing a broody foreboding, but his overlapping ellipses lead to an underwhelming conclusion that feels disappointingly contrived.

On a seemingly normal day, Matej (Sebastian Cavazza) suddenly begins receiving phone calls from his estranged father, Janez (Boris Cavazza) whom he hasn’t spoken with in over a decade. Reluctantly, he finally answers his phone and finds that his younger brother Robert, who had been living with his parents in the Slovenian countryside, had recently traveled to Turin and has seemingly disappeared. Janez needs Matej’s help...